Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Writing systems. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; whilst by no means mandatory, it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page, register your name on the Participants list and review this Project page. All contributions to articles and ideas for further development of this project are welcome. See this subpage for information about quality assessment of articles in this project.

This WikiProject aims primarily to provide Wikipedia (en) with a consistent treatment for each writing system and general information relating to the study of writing systems. Many writing systems already have extensive pages, and the systematic information on those pages is not presented in a consistent way. A main purpose of this WikiProject is to present that information consistently, that many notable writing systems are documented, and to ensure that each of the major subject areas relevant to each is covered, at least briefly.

Note: the abbreviation WS may be used on this project page as a shorthand way to mean "writing system".

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The following is a list of WikiProject Writing System participants who have been active in the last year.

Please add yourself in alphabetical order. (Don't put a blank line above or below your entry: it'll mess up the numbered list.) Feel free to sign up below if you'd be interested in helping out. You can add the userbox {{User WikiProject WS}} to your userpage after you've signed up. It will put you under Category:WikiProject Writing systems members.

CBD 20:41, 22 September 2006 (UTC) - Mostly a template handyman, but will also look into possible improvements to Maya script, Sarati, Enochian, and various other dead and/or fictional scripts which I am familiar with. --CBD 20:41, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Chet Gray (talk) 08:00, 15 April 2008 (UTC) – I don't have a particular expertise in any writing system, but this has long been an interest of mine, at least since I taught myself Tengwar in grade school.

cjllw added 9 Jun05; will be glad to help expand related articles where I can

graymornings: I speak and read Russian, so I'm familiar with the Cyrillic alphabet. I'm willing to help in any way – just post a message to my talk page.

Irtapil I'm fascinated phonetic writing systems. I don't know if this is fitting or ironic given I always hated spelling as a kid. It still feels like English uses vowels and double letters at random. I know it's not true mathematical randomness; there's a history behind it. So, "chaotic" is the more exact term for why i cannot predict what i need to do to make the angry red squiggle under the word go away.) I like that Arabic expresses all of the hard bits from English spelling as optional diacritics. If they'd tried to teach me Australian English symaltaniously simultaneously in Arabic, Devanagari, and Latin scripts, i think i might have learnt more of English. (talk) 10:49, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

User:Joost Trying to help sorting out and cleaning up some of the many writing systems. Started some work today on cleaning up the mess in the articles about the various Brahmic writing systems, including work on infoboxes, broken links, etc.

JWB (talk) 02:40, 20 January 2008 (UTC) Familiar with most major scripts and writing system issues in general.

Msanford (talk) 19:12, 4 March 2008 (UTC) Arabic, Greek and interested in starting a task force to improve and audit transliterations into English for which the original text is not provided (i.e., provide the original text).

Sundar I can participate where I can and will also use any template we decide upon to Tamil script

Thnidu (talk) Language freak, language geek. Scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Shavian, Tengwar, runes (both Futhark and Tolkien), Stokoe notation, somewhat of Hebrew. Languages: Latin, French, some Russian, Esperanto, Klingon, some German, chunks of quite a few others. But I'm mostly signing up for the intersection between this group and being a WikiGnome... so I probably have less time for it than I think I do. 18:13, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

The following members of WikiProject Writing Systems have been inactive editors for more than one year. If you find yourself on this list, but wish to remain on the active list, please move your entry back up to its place in the list of participants, above.

Atura 14:17(AEST) 2 December 2006 - English is my native language, i understand some Japanese and can read Hiragana and Katakana and some Kanji, also understand the Greek alphabet. Im more involved in neating up pages making them 'universal'

BalkanFever 02:16, 28 December 2007 (UTC) - Can help with Cyrillic, Latin and IPA.

Introduction: Cover the type of writing system (Alphabet, Syllabary, Abjad, etc.), which languages it transcribes, and its time period. Also cover information which is needed in order to understand further information in the article (i.e. something is not always the case, or the writing system has different names).

History: Cover the previous writing system(s) that it descended from and how it happened. Alternatively, if it is artificial, describe the creator(s) and how they made it.

Description: A chart of the writing system is given, as well as specifics about how it is written (printed and handwritten styles, whether it goes left to right or right or left, etc.)

I apologize if this is not appropriate, I am a fairly new member and have a good deal of interest in furthering scientific inquiry into the Wadi el-Hol Script. I keep having cited edits reverted because of a potentially overzealous editor, and I would like to solicit any qualified persons to either help justify or help debunk my citations/his vandalism. Please join us on the convoluted discussion page if you are qualified in Ancient Semitic languages or Arabic [1]. Msheflin (talk) 15:00, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

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